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Simon Belmont Except I'm totally fucking hyped about Dracula X: Chronicles.                    Since: 11-18-05 From: Pittsburgh Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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Here's a story with a happy ending 
Have you ever had a game you remember playing as a kid, but could not remember anything but a single detail about the game? and the things you did know you had trouble explaining? If not then you'll have no idea what I'm talking about, but for the past 10+ years I've been trying to find a game I did not know the title of, and remembered nothing except an overhead multi-direction shooting section of it, they used to rent it down the street in a small store, and it was for the genesis. In the past I've even gone through the entire goodGEN collection, skipping certain games that I knew just couldn't be it, but never found it. I actually was thinking maybe I made the game up in my head or am just morphing different games together through memories and drug abuse, but I decided to give it another go today, except playing every game in there, even ones that I thought couldn't possibly be the game I was looking for. I played through the first stage of "Adventure of Batman and Robin" which made me realize even potentially shitty games could be insanely awesome. So I keep going down the list and hit Blaster Master 2. Now I hate blaster master, I can't stand the game. I've tried to play through it at least 10 times, and can never seem to get past the first few stages without giving up and saying fuck this. I decide to give it a shot anyways, I know I've skipped over it many times before so it was worth a shot, after all Super Mario Bros. 2 was radically different than the first. So was Zelda, why not Blaster Master? Except its really not all that different at all. It's actually kinda similar. Except it has a very nostalgic feeling, I play through the first few stages and the graphic style really sticks to me, so does the music. I die and let the game reset, because there was no overhead stage that I played, and I distinctly remember an overhead stage. I let the demos play through, first few stages go by... nothing. A fire-themed stage goes by, the first thing I notice is a sort of cut-off tile, I start insulting that as I know glowing sand-ish stuff, which seemed really familiar. The very next demo is of an overhead shooter, exactly how and what I remembered, in a grid map but not exactly moving like a grid. That sealed the deal for me, now I've got a mission to beat this game. (edited by ztiks on 01-23-07 06:46 AM) |
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Tatrion <_<;  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6299 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| I had a similar occurance with Lufia 2.
I remembered playing some fun RPG game when I was 8 or so, and the only thing I could remember about it was that it was called "Luke's Sin" (Confused with Lufia: Rise of the Sinistrals), and that the guy you controlled had red hair. So, this plagued me until about a year or 2 ago, when I learned about emulation and ROMs and whatnot. Strangely, this happened in the form of a CD one of my relatives gave me with ZSNES and about 100 ROMs on it. I was going through the list alphabetically when I found the one labeled "Lufia2.smc". Of course, that title by itself didn't ring any bells, but what you'd have expected me to have found right before it and tried (aka Lufia 1) wasn't there, for some odd reason. So, I load it. And there it is. The dude with red hair. I'm shell shocked. It really is quite a bizarre feeling when you find something you remember so cloudily from your earlier days. |
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NSNick Gohma IF ALL ELSE FAILS USE BOOZE  Since: 11-17-05 From: Last post: 6300 days Last view: 6300 days |
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| Yeah, I very vaguely remembered the opening to Out of this World for the SNES and it took me years to find out what the actual game was called again. I actually found out when I bought a 3DO, and the game came with the system. Had no idea what it was til I saw the opening sequence again. | |||
FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos  Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| I remembered a small detail of Gyromite once, and didn't remember what the game was. Except my story is less exciting, because I rediscovered it while browsing Wikipedia. | |||
Kejardon Shyguy  Since: 05-21-06 Last post: 6299 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| Final Zone for the Genesis. Except it clicked by about the time the title screen loaded.
The music in that game rocks. |
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Sin Dogan   860  Uoodo Original Blend Armored Trooper Votoms Canned Coffee! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6302 days Last view: 6301 days |
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| Yea, kind of like when I remembered the first stage to the game Yo! Noid when I was 5 but forgot what it was called until I saw that Simpsons episode with the huge Noid balloon and was like "hey, it's that guy from that game". I downloaded the rom for Yo!Noid shortly after and now I couldn't care less for it. | |||
Xeo Belmont Wiiiiiiiiiiiiin  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| Super Turrican.
I remembered playing this game back when I first got my SNES. Several years ago when I started up on emulation and stuff I was out there trying to find it. The only thing that stuck to my mind, was the box cover (couldn't think of the name though), like 1 level or so, and the music. Other than that I couldn't remember anything. Thanksfully though, my dad somehow remembered what it was called. He doesn't even play videogames, and somehow he remembered its name. Out of this World was another game that my dad, somehow remembered that I couldn't. 
Very weird. |
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Ziff B2BB BACKTOBASICSBITCHES Since: 11-18-05 From: A room Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| Uniracers. I had it when I was a kid. Then I couldn't find it for a while. And I always wanted to play "that rocking game", but when I described it no one could remember it. And then one day I found the ROM. And I was happy again. | |||
Tanks Spiny  Since: 06-19-06 From: Eagle Land Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| Jaws for nes... all I could remember was dropping bombs on jelly fish and I could never remember the whole shark thing. I eventually narrowed the list down to water themed titles and happened upon Jaws. I now have it and I am unhappy that the games is harder than it was when I was a kid.
(I have that problem stated in the previous scentence with SMB3 also... I could get a bunch of flutes as a kid. one in the first level by ducking under the white block, one somewhere in a fortress and another somewhere else... Thats how I would get to the last world and die) (edited by Tanks on 01-23-07 05:51 PM) (edited by Tanks on 01-23-07 05:53 PM) |
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asdf Link's Awakening ಠ_ಠ  Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6300 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| Seriously, screw you guys. I haven't been so lucky with remembering games. Among some of them I can't remember for the life of me...
- An NES side-scrolling beat'em up game. Every now and then, the screen would go dark, and strange enemies would attack. - A top-down shooter for the NES. I believe flying between the planets may have been involved. Came on a light-blue cart. - A wrestling game for the NES. One of the characters was an orange guy with a headbutt attack (used with forward A or forward B - I forget which) that could be spammed to win easily. - A platformer game for the SNES, where you controlled this character looking for his stolen flag. He always kept running into things like underpants (much to his annoyance), until finally finding it. But when he goes home, the rest of his flags have been stolen. Easy difficulty was refered to as "Child's Play", and I believe that the character design may have resembled Rayman. Slightly. Also, I specifically remember there being a scene at the end of two-player Contra where the two main characters stood on a cliff in a cutscene (not the one where they run into the helicopter). I remember playing through it with some friends (of varying ages), we used the Konami code and swapped controllers when one of us died. The one guy went all the way to the final boss without dying (remarking that until then, he could not get past waterfall). I then managed to dodge everything while the other guy finished off the final boss. A younger person than me stated that, "that's [my friend] and [me]" at that scene. No, I am not hinting at anything in this post.  |
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Simon Belmont Except I'm totally fucking hyped about Dracula X: Chronicles. Since: 11-18-05 From: Pittsburgh Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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Originally posted by asdf sounds like plok. |
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jeff Double metal axe  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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Originally posted by asdf beat em up - no clue, but maybe mighty final fight or one of the double dragon games. shoot em up - gyruss maybe. wrestling (pick em up?)- tecmo wrestling, perhaps. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| We were too poor for video games when I was kid, so I don't have any vague memories of childhood games.
I did help a friend find a game he used to play, though. Except he couldn't remember what system it was for or even the approximate year he played it (too much pot). All he could remember was a voice that said "multiple" when you got particular power-up. After on and of searching over a period of months I finally found it. It was an arcade game he used to play at a gas station. |
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NSNick Gohma IF ALL ELSE FAILS USE BOOZE Since: 11-17-05 From: Last post: 6300 days Last view: 6300 days |
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Originally posted by asdf Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde? God, I hope not. That game sucked so horribly. |
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Simon Belmont Except I'm totally fucking hyped about Dracula X: Chronicles. Since: 11-18-05 From: Pittsburgh Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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So far this game is pretty much as cool as I thought it was. There's the standard stages, you either walk around with Jason (little dude) or Sophia (tank  ) going through, mostly using sophia, for superior firepower, but sometimes using Jason, for smaller areas that sophia cannot fit. There's a boss-view, which is Just Jason, but a bigger sprite, and then there's the top-down view, which would make an awesome game on its own; you move with left-up-down-right, B rotates the turret left, C rotates it right, A fires, there are temporary powerups and powerdowns hidden in blocks, and its just so smooth. Tough as nails, too. Not recca nails, but you know, nails.
Lots of powerups so far, I can fucking hover. Got a more powerful gun that can melt through certain blocks, a drilltip, and so far a few powerups for the little guy, too. The bosses have been pretty lame, though. half of them seem to just go in a set pattern without actually caring what you're doing, the other just chase you down; They don't seem to go from easy->hard, but rather, they're just themed to the levels. They also seem to repeat, twice with different graphics, same basic attack routine once, slightly different attack scheme the second time (shoots fish, speed doesn't increase quite as much when it gets mad) (edited by ztiks on 01-24-07 08:50 AM) |
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16BT Micro-Goomba Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6310 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| I had a hard time remembering Cool Spot. When I was little I played it at my dentist's office (they had a Sega Genesis machine there that had 10 games rotating every 5 minutes). All I remembered was the 7up dude. No level layout, no gameplay style, just the 7up dude. Then about a year ago I asked online about it and found it. They I remembered how hard the game was and haven't played it since. | |||
Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6298 days |
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...A Genesis machine at your dentist's office? 
When I'm there I usually end up staring at the fish tank so... :\ And I know what game with the weird enemies at night asdf's talking about but - of course - I can't remember the name of it. XD As for the one with the light blue cart... maybe a Color Dreams game? Definitely wouldn't be licensed. |
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Scatterheart Paratroopa Since: 11-18-05 From: Sydney, Australia Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| Seems like this is the place for trying to find long-forgotten games.
asdf: That definately seems like Plok. I owned that game as a kid. Didn't notice the extremely easiness in it though. No underpants... 
But you finish the first world to retrieve your flag. Once you've gone back home, you find out that the rest of your flags have been stolen by "fleas". They're blue jumping things that change to green before they die. Annoying fuckers. I might play that game soon, actually.
MY HELP!! PC game: A long time ago, I played a demo disk that had Doom on it. Along with that was a vertical flying game, similar to Parodius and all of that, but upwards. It was war-based, and had a money system, where you could buy kick-ass weapons. The best weapon in the game (which was attainable in the first stage if you repeatidly started the stage over again) was this huge blue beam gun. Nothing else like it in the entire game. I think you had a health system where the more your jet flashed, the closer you were to dying. I'm not sure. At the end of a stage, you would see a little animation of your plane flying into a docking ship (also a plane, i think). After the little animation, you could pay to repair your ship, buy weapons, and choose to proceed to the next stage. Oh GOD I hope one of you guys knows what I'm talking about. TY. |
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Kejardon Shyguy Since: 05-21-06 Last post: 6299 days Last view: 6298 days |
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| That one's easy.
Uh. Gimme a minute to remember the name of it... Raptor: Call of the Shadows NES wrestling one might be WWF WrestleMania... I might still have that cartridge at home. I think you're talking about Andre's step + headbut move. |
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SamuraiX Broom Hatter Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6299 days |
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| Anyone remember the Dr. Brain games? It makes me feel a bit old to think that they were that far back. But when I look back and think of such games, it makes me wonder, why aren't there that many brain-stimulating games anymore? I like your first-person shooter as much as the next, but does anyone ever feel that there should be more games that force you to think? |
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